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A new system of welcome emails for new users

December 19, 2018TutorialsKerika, Login, TutorialKerika

Along with our recent (and ongoing) effort to update all the Kerika tutorial videos, we will be rolling out a new system of sending welcome emails to new users.

These emails will come once a day for the first 10 days or so (it depends upon how many tutorial videos we end up creating), and each email will include a link to a specific tutorial: e.g. how files are managed in Kerika, or how teams can be set up.

Our goal is to help new users learn about core features of Kerika as quickly as possible, over the first couple of weeks of their usage.

These emails are distinct from the notifications that might be generated through your normal usage of Kerika, such as (optionally) getting a task summary sent at 6AM.

A simple unsubscribe system is also being rolled out in conjunction with these emails: if a user doesn’t find these tutorials helpful, they can stop receiving them.

We encourage you to hang out with your friends

September 9, 2016Technology, UsabilityBox, Direct Sign Up, Google Apps, LoginKerika

When you sign up directly with Kerika, we take a look at your email address and try to figure out whether you would be better off with Kerika+Google or Kerika+Box.

This helps ensure that you are going to be able to easily collaborate with other people from your company, who may have signed up already using their Google or Box IDs.

Here’s an example: joe@kerika.com tries to sign up directly, and we suggest automatically that he sign up as a Kerika+Box user since so many of his colleagues already have Kerika+Box accounts:

Making sure Gmail users sign up for Kerika+Google

August 23, 2016KerikaBox, Direct Sign Up, Google Apps, Login, UsabilityKerika

We offer three ways for you to sign up as a Kerika user:

Using a Google ID, e.g. a Gmail address if you have one.
Using a Box ID, if you are a Box user.
Signing up directly.

Using a Google ID means you are getting Kerika+Google: the version of Kerika that offers amazingly smooth integration with your Google Drive and Google Docs.

Using a Box ID means that you are getting Kerika+Box: the version that offers amazingly smooth integration with the Box platform.

And signing up directly means that you can use any email address you like, and leave it to Kerika to store your files for you.

Originally, we had just Kerika+Google, and then we built Kerika+Box to address the market for enterprises that preferred using Box to Google.

And, finally, we built the direct login method for people who didn’t care about how their Kerika files were stored, and were happy to just leave that whole job for us to take care of.

We are now trying to streamline that process even further.

If you already have a Gmail address, it is very likely that you are already comfortable with using Google’s services, which means you should really be getting a Kerika+Google account so that you can benefit from all the great, smooth integration we have already done.

In the same vein, if the majority of people from your company have already signed up for a particular service, e.g. Kerika+Box or Kerika+Google, then it makes sense for you to sign up in the same way so that you can share boards with your coworkers.

This process is now more automated, and, we hope, simpler: when you sign up, we look at the email address you are using to set up your Kerika account and try to set you up with the version of Kerika that will make most sense:

If you are signing up with a Gmail address, we are going to set you up with Kerika+Google.
If most people from your company have already signed up for Kerika+Box, or Kerika+Google, we will set you up the same way as well.

This should make for less confusion about which flavor of Kerika is going to be tastiest for you…

We are upgrading our Google Apps Marketplace integration

July 29, 2014Kerika, TechnologyAccount, Google Apps, LoginKerika

We are now dealing with two different user communities!

People are signing up for our new Kerika+Box product, and we are continuing to grow our Kerika+Google user base.

Next up: we are upgrading our Google Apps Marketplace integration to also use OAuth 2.0, so that all logins to Kerika will be with OAuth 2.0, across all platforms.

The background to this work is slightly wonky, and reflects the way Google Apps Marketplace has evolved within the Google ecosystem.

If you sign up for Kerika+Google today, you actually go through a OAuth 2.0 authentication and authorization process with Google, which gives us your basic profile information (name, email, photo) that we use to set up your Kerika+Google account, as well as access to your Google Docs.

But, if you sign up for Kerika+Google through the Google Apps Marketplace, you had been going through an older OAuth 1.0 protocol.

Google has deprecated OAuth 1.0, so we are updating our Google Apps Markeplace to also work with OAuth 2.0, just like a regular sign-up through Kerika.com.

This change will not affect any existing users: the most visible effect will be on our Sign Up page, which will start to show three options for new users:

Sign up for a Kerika+Box account: this will work as it does today – it will use OAuth 2.0 to set up a Kerika account using your Box credentials (name, email address, and access to your Box account to store your Kerika-related files).

Sign up for a Kerika+Google account: this will also work as it does today – it will use OAuth 2.0 to set up a Kerika account using your regular Google credentials (e.g. Gmail ID, YouTube ID) and store your Kerika-related files in your Google Drive.